Comments on: Date Formatter Examples – Take 1: NSDateFormatter

By: Piyushkumar

Piyushkumar — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:31:16 +0000

thanks for giving the simple way solving the example…

By: John

John — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:29:29 +0000

Thanks Ignacio, I have removed the examples that are not applicable for the iPhone.

By: Ignacio

Ignacio — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:33:46 +0000

This examples help a lot… however, is initWithDateFormat:allowNaturalLanguage: method really available fo iphone OS? I saw the documentation and there was no such a method. I think that method is Mac OS only.

By: John

John — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:22:47 +0000

Good call Nick, I’ve updated the post with a few changes based on your comments.

Thanks.

By: Nick Ludlam

Nick Ludlam — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:32:28 +0000

Thanks for the post. Just a small point, but you can replace your

NSDate *today = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:0];

with a more succinct

NSDate *today = [NSDate date];

I’ve also read that it’s good practice to call release explicitly, rather than relying on autorelease, as there’s an overhead with autoreleasing, and you can’t control when the release will actually occur.